August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 45m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition
by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins
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Name
mke2fs
Synopsis
mke2fs [options] device [blocks]
mkfs.ext2 [options] device [blocks]
Description
System administration command. Format device as a Linux Second Extended Filesystem. You may specify the number of blocks on the device or allow mke2fs to guess.
Options
- -b block-size
Specify block size in bytes.
- -c
Scan device for bad blocks before execution.
- -f fragment-size
Specify fragment size in bytes.
- -i bytes-per-inode
Create an inode for each bytes-per-inode of space. bytes-per-inode must be 1024 or greater; it is 4096 by default.
- -l filename
Consult filename for a list of bad blocks.
- -m percentage
Reserve percentage percent of the blocks for use by privileged users.
- -q
Quiet mode.
- -v
Verbose mode.
- -S
Write only superblock and group descriptors; suppress writing of inode table and block and inode bitmaps. Useful only when attempting to salvage damaged systems.
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